Infrastructure Automation Contracts in Central London

Infrastructure Automation
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Infrastructure Automation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Automation over the 6 months leading up to 22 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 126 153
Rank change year-on-year +22 +27 +44
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Automation 29 10 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.42% 0.42% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 0.46% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 9 15
10th Percentile £359 £366 £494
25th Percentile £385 £425 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £700
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -21.43% +21.74%
75th Percentile £656 £600 £738
90th Percentile £700 £670 £768
London median daily rate £513 £525 £590
% change year-on-year -2.38% -11.02% +7.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Infrastructure Automation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,914 2,155 3,319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.73% 91.39% 90.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,242 1,492 2,253
10th Percentile £331 £363 £325
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -5.83% +5.68%
75th Percentile £675 £682 £713
90th Percentile £775 £797 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 24 24
10th Percentile £22.08 £20.22 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £22.84 £16.33
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.41 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.89% -13.13% -16.67%
75th Percentile £50.75 £53.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £124.00 £88.30
London median hourly rate £30.00 £33.55 £41.50
% change year-on-year -10.58% -19.16% +16.90%

Infrastructure Automation
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Infrastructure Automation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Automation in Central London

Infrastructure Automation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Automation in Central London

Infrastructure Automation
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Automation in Central London over the 6 months to 22 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Automation in Central London

Infrastructure Automation
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Automation within the Central London region over the 6 months to 22 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +19 23 £539 -2.09% 11
Infrastructure Automation
London

Infrastructure Automation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.45%) Apache
1 1 (3.45%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.45%) Confluence
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (51.72%) Azure
2 11 (37.93%) AWS
3 9 (31.03%) GCP
4 5 (17.24%) GitHub
4 5 (17.24%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (13.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (10.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (10.34%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (6.90%) Amazon S3
7 2 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (6.90%) Azure AKS
7 2 (6.90%) Cloud Composer
7 2 (6.90%) Cloud Functions
7 2 (6.90%) Google Compute Engine
7 2 (6.90%) Serverless
8 1 (3.45%) Azure AI
8 1 (3.45%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) Firewall
2 1 (3.45%) DNS
2 1 (3.45%) Internet
2 1 (3.45%) NAS
2 1 (3.45%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (3.45%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (3.45%) SAN
2 1 (3.45%) SSH
2 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.45%) tcpdump
2 1 (3.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.69%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (20.69%) Redis
2 5 (17.24%) Oracle Database
3 3 (10.34%) Big Data
3 3 (10.34%) BigQuery
4 2 (6.90%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (3.45%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (44.83%) Jenkins
2 10 (34.48%) Git
3 7 (24.14%) GitLab
4 6 (20.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 6 (20.69%) JIRA
5 5 (17.24%) JUnit
5 5 (17.24%) Maven
5 5 (17.24%) Mockito
5 5 (17.24%) Postman
5 5 (17.24%) REST Assured
5 5 (17.24%) SoapUI
5 5 (17.24%) SonarQube
5 5 (17.24%) Subversion
5 5 (17.24%) Xcode
5 5 (17.24%) XCTest
6 1 (3.45%) git-flow
General
1 10 (34.48%) Finance
2 8 (27.59%) Banking
3 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
4 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.90%) Financial Institution
5 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (31.03%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (13.79%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (13.79%) GCP Engineer
2 4 (13.79%) Senior
3 3 (10.34%) Automation Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (10.34%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Developer
3 3 (10.34%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Data Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) GCP Data Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) GCP DevOps
4 2 (6.90%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Big Data Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.69%) Kafka
1 6 (20.69%) REST
2 5 (17.24%) AngularJS
2 5 (17.24%) Bootstrap
2 5 (17.24%) CSS
2 5 (17.24%) CSS3
2 5 (17.24%) Hibernate
2 5 (17.24%) HTML
2 5 (17.24%) HTML5
2 5 (17.24%) J2EE
2 5 (17.24%) JPA
2 5 (17.24%) Material-UI
2 5 (17.24%) SOAP
2 5 (17.24%) Spring
2 5 (17.24%) Spring Boot
2 5 (17.24%) Spring Cloud
2 5 (17.24%) Spring MVC
2 5 (17.24%) Swagger
2 5 (17.24%) Web Services
3 2 (6.90%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (10.34%) Hedge funds
3 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.45%) Credit Risk
3 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.45%) Mainframe
3 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (27.59%) Linux
2 6 (20.69%) Unix
3 3 (10.34%) Rocky
4 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (75.86%) CI/CD
2 16 (55.17%) DevOps
3 11 (37.93%) Agile
3 11 (37.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (24.14%) Containerisation
6 6 (20.69%) Code Quality
6 6 (20.69%) Microservices
6 6 (20.69%) TDD
6 6 (20.69%) Unit Testing
7 5 (17.24%) Concurrent Programming
7 5 (17.24%) Configuration Management
7 5 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (17.24%) Mentoring
7 5 (17.24%) Multithreading
7 5 (17.24%) MVC
7 5 (17.24%) SDLC
7 5 (17.24%) Software Architecture
7 5 (17.24%) Software Testing
7 5 (17.24%) Static Code Analysis
Programming Languages
1 13 (44.83%) Python
2 8 (27.59%) SQL
3 6 (20.69%) Groovy
3 6 (20.69%) JavaScript
4 5 (17.24%) Java
4 5 (17.24%) Shell Script
5 4 (13.79%) Bash
5 4 (13.79%) Go
6 2 (6.90%) C#
7 1 (3.45%) COBOL
7 1 (3.45%) CodeQL
7 1 (3.45%) JCL
7 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
7 1 (3.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared
1 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.45%) Degree
3 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) QA
2 2 (6.90%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (34.48%) Docker
2 2 (6.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (68.97%) Kubernetes
1 20 (68.97%) Terraform
2 8 (27.59%) Ansible
3 3 (10.34%) Consul
4 2 (6.90%) Argo
4 2 (6.90%) Grafana
4 2 (6.90%) Istio
4 2 (6.90%) Prometheus
4 2 (6.90%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (3.45%) Packer
5 1 (3.45%) yum
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Dynatrace
1 6 (20.69%) Splunk
2 5 (17.24%) CA Agile Central
2 5 (17.24%) Google
2 5 (17.24%) Oracle
3 2 (6.90%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.45%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.45%) OpenAI